Good luck to David Moyes, this is not the Everton you remember but a mess - why this is one of the toughest assignments of his career, writes RIATH AL-SAMARRAI
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It is evident that some individuals employed by Everton still harbour warm and fuzzy feelings. Not enough to give Sean Dyche a word of thanks among the 76 they used to announce his sacking, granted, but beating hearts do exist. Proof of life has been supplied.
![[Everton have won just three league games this season and are in another relegation battle]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/11/11/93988323-14273373-image-a-5_1736595354700.jpg)
In the first instance, we are focusing less on the decision to reunite with David Moyes and more on one of the sentimental souls he will oversee. That being the nameless player who ‘had a pop’ at Darren Ferguson on Thursday night. There’s a modicum of nuance to be factored in here. A recognition that Peterborough United’s manager had given a few nods and winks that one of his lads, Tyler Young, might get a run-out against his old man Ashley.
![[Sean Dyche had the stuffing knocked out of him during his two-year reign at Goodison Park]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/11/11/93988325-14273373-image-m-8_1736595413412.jpg)
But much as we all like a spot of romance in the FA Cup, pragmatism usually wins. So when Ferguson realised his side wasn’t in for a pasting, his appetite for trivia faded – he suddenly didn’t fancy the idea of sending on an 18-year-old midfielder with 27 minutes of first-team experience.
![[Everton have become a mess, with no one able to get the best out of the team over the past decade]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/11/11/93988327-14273373-image-a-18_1736595562513.jpg)
Bit of a kill-joy, and it didn’t save the game, but his call to look beyond ‘charity’, as he put it, was sensible. Most would even say professional. But not the player who felt sufficiently aggrieved to whine at Ferguson and whose milky instincts gave too much away about the personalities at Everton.
![[I believe that Moyes is now facing one of toughest assignments of his managerial career]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/11/11/93988333-14273373-image-m-20_1736595611887.jpg)
David Moyes has returned to Everton, but it is a very different club to the one he left in 2013. Everton have won just three league games this season and are in another relegation battle. Sean Dyche had the stuffing knocked out of him during his two-year reign at Goodison Park.
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